Reason Quotes
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There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
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There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is ridiculous vanity ... Others desire to learn that they may morally instruct others, that is love. And, lastly, there are some who wish to learn that they may be themselves edified; and that is prudence.
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Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.
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We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.
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I'm a recognizable person and some people feel the need for some reason to take me to task. You're really messing with the wrong person on that one.
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The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.
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Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.
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At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right
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For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens than the rest of the planet combined.
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I don't know," I said. "Maybe you're right, and all that stuff I think I missed is overrated. Why should I even bother? What's the point really?" He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be a point?" he asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do." He moved down to start bagging while I just stood there, letting this sink in. Just something you have to do. No excuse or rationale necessary. I kind of like that.
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Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.
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Terrorists have already attacked our Nation once. There is every reason to believe that they will try again - possibly with a weapon of mass destruction; a weapon that could be smuggled into our ports.
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I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out.
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One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in Beverly Hills.
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I'd like to have a vote on it at the November owners' meetings. There's no reason why we can't announce who we intend to sell the team to in conjunction with signing the lease. But it's very important that we sign a lease contemplated by the stadium agreement. We continue to negotiate and hope that this will quickly be resolved.
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A demon, in a way, is a test of your faith. Because if you're doing God's work, there's no reason for any demon to do anything to you.
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He regarded life as a rather odd club of which he had accidentally become a member and from which one could be expelled without reasons having to be supplied. He had already decided to leave the club if the meetings should become all too boring. But how boring is boring?
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While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there's no reason to believe you'll succeed at it tomorrow.
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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it
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Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.
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Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.
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Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.
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Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle. I've seen a lot of those articles and I thought they were unreasonable when I was in school, but they're getting a little bit out of hand now. We should embrace what makes us different, our different styles, our creativity.
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The great temptation of Big Data is that we can stop worrying about comprehension and focus on preventive action instead. Instead of wasting precious public resources on understanding the 'why' - i.e., exploring the reasons as to why terrorists become terrorists - one can focus on predicting the 'when' so that a timely intervention could be made.
